KOHEN, ELEAZAR BEN ZE'EV WOLF
- KOHEN, ELEAZAR BEN ZE'EV WOLF
- KOHEN, ELEAZAR BEN ZE'EV WOLF (d. 1883), Polish rabbi and
author. Kohen was the son-in-law of jacob lorbeerbaum . He served
as rabbi in Makow, Pultusk, Plock, and finally in Sochaczew. Among his
pupils were aaron walden , author of Shem ha-Gedolim
he-Ḥadash (1864), to which he gave an approbation. Kohen wrote
Zikhron Nifla'ot, a commentary on the Passover
Haggadah (1880) and a commentary on Avot (1889).
His novellae on the Shulḥan Arukh, the Talmud, and Maimonides were
published by his son Joshua under the title Ḥiddushei
Maharakh (2 vols., 1897–1913). He published a number of eulogies
on contemporary rabbis, among them Zekher Ẓaddik Yesod Olam
(1866) on Isaac Meir Alter.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
L. Lewin, Geschichte der Juden in Lissa (1904), 223; Eẓ
Avot, bound with Eleazar Kohen, Ḥiddushei Maharakh, 2
(1913, repr. 1969).
(Samuel Abba Horodezky)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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